Programs

Rennowned experts expose severe health crisis from Fukushima Disaster and cover up
15 Mar, 2019 | 0:59:26 |EN |
Michael Welch |
Global Research News Hour
On this week's Global Research News Hour radio program, we commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdowns, examining the ongoing hazards from radioactive contamination and the efforts made by the Japanese government, nuclear regulators and health authorities in suppressing information that would protect the public and the natural environment. Guests are legendary anti-nuclear advocate and physician Dr....

Community Radio News from Coast to Coast to Coast
12 Mar, 2019 | 0:29:06 |EN |
Groundwire Production |
This episode of GroundWire was produced at CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on occupied Anishinaabeg Akiin, the homeland of the Métis Nation, and the historical territory of the Nehiyawak and the Nakota. Headlines: Austerity Budgets in Manitoba | Michael Welch, CKUW Underfunding undermining Legal Aid services in BC | Catherine Fisher, CJLY Bombardier's unethical business practices | Will Anderson, CKUT...

FOR RELEASE WEEK OF MARCH 4, 2019
19 Feb, 2019 | 0:28:48 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
Nanoparticles are so small that they slip through normal regulatory loopholes; they are already in our food packaging, clothing, and cosmetics. Little is yet known about their effects, but they can behave in strange and likely dangerous ways. Feitshans calls for international harmonization of regulation and for the public to inform itself about what is in our midst.

Geraldine McManus talks about the Spirit of the Buffalo Camp in rural Manitoba.
08 Jan, 2019 | 0:27:55 |EN |
Scott Neigh |
Talking Radical Radio
Geraldine McManus is a Two-Spirit Dakota woman of the Bear Clan. She is the driving force behind the Spirit of the Buffalo Camp, a prayer camp in rural Manitoba on the US/Canada border that sits on top of where Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline runs. Scott Neigh interviews her about about her opposition to Line 3 and about the...

Marilyn Keddy and Peter Puxley talk about the work of the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia.
18 Dec, 2018 | 0:28:05 |EN |
Scott Neigh |
Talking Radical Radio
Marilyn Keddy is a social worker and a long-time activist who lives in an active lobster fishing cove near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Peter Puxley is also a long-time activist, and has worked as an economist and a journalist. Scott Neigh interviews them about the work of the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia (CPONS), an initiative to defend the province's...

Winnipeg mayoral forum on the Environment, Indigenous Suicides, Conversations at McGill Powwow
25 Sep, 2018 | 0:29:41 |EN |
Groundwire Production |
This episode of GroundWire was produced at CKUT 90.3FM on the unceded territories of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee, as well as CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg on occupied Anishinaabeg Akiin, the homeland of the Métis nation, and the historical territory of the Nehiyawak and the Nakota by producer Michael Welch. Headlines: BC Government appeals court ruling on halting development in...

FOR RELEASE WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2018
08 Sep, 2018 | 0:28:49 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
This documentary follows a sacred river walk along the dangerously polluted Housatonic River in western Massachusetts state in the northeast USA. The purpose of the walk was ceremonial, but also to bring people together and raise awareness of rivers as the bloodstream of the earth and of water as a living thing to which humans belong.

FOR RELEASE WEEK OF SEPT 16, 2018
07 Sep, 2018 | 0:28:47 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
Conclusion of 2-part interview with biologist Karen Messing about gendered research on gendered work and its effects on health and stress. Both parts are full of examples.

Menstrual supplies and education in Scotland, India, and Kenya
30 Jul, 2018 | 0:28:41 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
Menstruation education and attempts to remedy "period poverty" are catching on around the world. This program contrasts efforts in Scotland, India, and Kenya. Differences include whether the menstrual products made available are commercial, a new re-usable commercial design, or a re-usable product from a local nonprofit. Advocates for period education range from family members to grassroots organizations, to the First...

Pipelines and Energy policy, Canada-US Trade war, Trump attacks on Trudeau at G7
15 Jun, 2018 | 0:59:41 |EN |
Michael Welch |
Global Research News Hour
This week's Global Research News Hour sets its gaze on the challenges facing the Trudeau government domestically and in its relations with the Trump Administration. We first hear from Energy Analyst David Hughes, the author of a CCPA report on Canada's Energy Outlook. He tackles the economic and environmental viability of the Trudeau government's determined purchase of Kinder Morgan's Trans-Mountain...

Friends and Loved ones share perspectives on the whistleblower and investigative journalist
13 Apr, 2018 | 0:59:40 |EN |
Michael Welch |
Global Research News Hour
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we mark the fourth anniversary of the passing of noted LAPD whistleblower, investigative journalist, and peak oil activist Michael Ruppert. Over the course of the show, we will feature perspectives from close friends and associates, including Carolyn Baker, Jamey Hecht, Barry Silverthorn, Jenna Orkin, Mark Robinowitz, and Mimi German. We will also feature...

Building knowledge and attitude for careers in STEM
09 Apr, 2018 | 0:28:43 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
Young women in Mombasa formed an organization called Pwani Teknowgalz that teaches girls and ladies coding, website creation, and app development. So far, they worked with students in 180 secondary schools and 4 universities. Teachers and students talk about their projects and emphasize the importance of female mentors and role models.

Dorene Bernard and Rebecca Moore talk about grassroot Mi'kmaq resistance to the Alton Gas project.
20 Mar, 2018 | 0:27:59 |EN |
Scott Neigh |
Talking Radical Radio
Dorene Bernard is a Mi'kmaq woman of the Otter Clan from Sipekne'katik and a residential school survivor, and she describes herself as a grassroots grandmother, a water walker, and a water protector. Rebecca Moore is a Mi'kmaq woman from Pictou Landing First Nation and a water protector. Scott Neigh interviews them about the treaty camp and other grassroots Mi'kmaq resistance...

About the Offshore Alliance, an uncommon coalition between environmental and fisheries organizations
27 Feb, 2018 | 0:28:01 |EN |
Scott Neigh |
Talking Radical Radio
Gretchen Fitzgerald is the national program director for the Sierra Club Canada Foundation. John Davis is the director of the Clean Ocean Action Committee, a consortium of organizations based in the east coast fishing industry. Both are part of the Offshore Alliance, a coalition working to oppose regulatory changes that they argue would put the marine environment and the fishery...

Three observers comment on the most under-reported relevant stories of the past year
05 Jan, 2018 | 0:59:16 |EN |
Michael Welch |
Global Research News Hour
The Global Research News Hour opens the new year with a review of some of the stories that went under-reported or under-examined in 2017. We first hear from Andy Lee Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored about the media project's list of the Most Censored stories of 2017, and about their Censored 2018 publication. We next hear from John Schertow,...

Preparing for needs of women and children
31 Dec, 2017 | 0:28:46 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
At a panel on Women and Climate Change at the American Public Health Association's 2017 conference, women professionals with disaster experience gave strong advice for improving disaster response, including childcare, elder care, protections against violence, and more.

Where is the seat at the climate table for indigenous peoples?
09 Dec, 2017 | 0:28:40 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
Keynote address by Eriel Tchekwie Deranger of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, at the American Public Health Association 2017 annual meeting in 2017.

Dahr Jamail on Current Climate indicators, Dane Wigington on Geoengineering dangers
10 Nov, 2017 | 0:59:02 |EN |
Michael Welch |
Global Research News Hour
On the occasion of the 23rd annual UN Climate conference currently underway in Bonn, the Global Research News Hour is examining the most up to date information on how human impacts is affecting the biosphere of planet Earth. In the first half hour, Dahr Jamail, award-winning journalist and staff writer for Truthout.org joins us to elaborate on record high temperatures,...